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[Mrs Sarah]

Magento is a corportate – level eCommerce platform tailored to web development professionals and large online store. Since the final version of Magento 2.2 was launched on September 26, 2017, a lot of users are curious to switch from their current versions to Magento 2.2.

Magento 2.2 provides a bunch of enhanced feature such as nice design, easy to customize as well as amazing functionality improvements.

Like many others, you believe that upgrading to Magento 2 will bring your store to a new level. Good for you! But where is the easiest and most effective way?

Do not skip the article below!

1. What’s new feature in Magento 2.2?

A lot of waiting, the new version of Magento – Magento 2.2, fulfills our expectations with great changes in features as well as speed.

In this article, Carmigration will share with you the most outstanding features of Magento 2.2 Enterprise Edition (EE) and Magento 2.2 Community Edition (CE)

Below is a quick summary:

Magento 2.2 EE Features

• New B2B feature set;
• Enhanced Reporting;
• Better Fraud Protection
• Improved Security
• Enhanced Developer Experience;
• Mass Upgraded Technology Stack
• New Deployment Process
• Better Performance: Improved Indexing, Cart, and Cache operations.

Magento 2.2 CE Features:

• Improved Security
• Enhanced Developer Experience;
• Mass Upgraded Technology Stack
• New Deployment Process;
• Better Performance: Improved Indexing, Cart, and Cache operations

After that, you are looking for the easiest way how to upgrade to Magento 2.2 version?

Go on to the next heads!

2. Data can be migrated during the Magento 2.2 upgrade

During the upgrade, the migration of data from the older version to a new one is extremely important.

This is a complex and difficult process that no one can do exactly by hand. Typically, most of Magento users often use a Migration tool to convert data automatically.

Below is a list of the data can be converted during the upgrade:

WHAT DATA CAN POSSIBLY BE MIGRATED

PRODUCTS

• SKU, Name, Description, Qty, Stock Status, Model, Weight …
• Base Image, Additional Images
• Base Price, Special Price
• Assign to Product Categories
• Options (Size; Weight, Color …)
• Extra Fields ( Checkboxes, Dropdownlist, Radiobuttons)
• Variants: can be grouped with related variants together to form a product
• Meta Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords
• Currencies

CATEGORIES

• Name, Description, Base Image, Additional Images

CUSTOMERS

• ID, Username, First Name, Last Name, Email, DOB, Address …
• Customer Password (*)

ORDERS

• ID, Order products, Product price, Qty, Date, Status, Discount price …

SEO URLs (*)

• Migrate Products and Categories SEO URLs
• Migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products

CUSTOM FIELDS (*)

• Custom fields of Products, Categories, Customers and Orders

REVIEWS

• Customers Name, Rating, Review, Status …

TAXES

• Tax rules, Tax rates, Product tax classes …

MANUFACTURERS

• Name

MULTI-LANGUAGES

3. How to perform the Magento 2.2 upgrade?

Maybe you know a lot of ways to complete your Magento 2.2 update, but as below, using migration tool for this task is the easiest and most efficient method. This tool allows you not only to transfer your eCommerce data to Magento 2.2 store automatedly, but also to upgrade your current store successfully with no programming skills!

Now, let’s get started! 

Step 1: Download Magento Migration tool

It’s very easy to find which tool is suitable, but this is Top 3 Best Magento migration tools I especially recommend for you. Check it now before it’s gone!

Top 3 Best Magento Migration Tools

Step 2: Back up your database

In this step, you should make sure you have a recent and clean backup. Besides, don’ forget to check the versions release notes to see what changes have been made.

Step 3: Perform full the Magento 2.2 upgrade

There is a lot of information that you must complete in this step which are source and target store information, language mapping, order status mapping, entities to migrate and other additional options.

Then, click “Start migration” button to launch of full the Magento 2.2. upgrade.

Step 4: Enjoy your new Magento store

[Jatin Nayyar]

When it comes to migration from M1 to M2, there are following elements you need to take into consider -:
-Do you need new creative design or not? (UI / UX)
-Do you want to migrate all data from old store to new store?

         -Catalogue Data (Product, Category)
         -Customer Data
        - Order Data
         -Newsletter Data
         -CMS pages / blog

-Do you want to build your theme from scratch or you have out of the box Magento 2 themes to be installed?
-Do you have third party extensions which are available in M2 or not?
-Do you have custom extension which required to be rebuilt in M2?

 

Try Magento 1 to Magento Migration Estimator will help you get an idea of things which need to be considered and also give you an idea of cost.